Guess Who's Back!!

Happy Monday, everyone!

After a brief (OK, so it wasn’t so brief…sorry!) hiatus, the Motivation 101 Blog is back and better than ever.

I’ve been spending the last couple of months exploring this wonderful device we call the World Wide Web and all of the powerful things it can do. I’ve been studying social media and Web 2.0 and Facebook and Twitter and all of the leverage they can provide to businesses who are paying attention and learning how to adapt to the new world and the new economy we find ourselves living in.

Most of all, though, I’ve been exploring my own life and business and trying to make sense out of all the advice I’ve been getting from business associates, mentors and friends.  And I’ve had an epiphany. More on that later, though. For now, I want to let you know what’s going to be happening with the Motivation 101 Blog here at it’s new home. 

First of all, this blog is going to be the home of the best content I can write.  I truly believe that the only way the current ‘economic crisis’ is going to end is if we all decide to quit playing along.  I’ve said it before, and I’m going to keep saying it: this recession has nothing to do with a lack of money or resources.  It is the result of a lack of confidence and trust.  In other words, it is a psychological  recession. 

I realize that, to the person who has lost his or her job and is depending on unemployment to make it through, that may sound a little callous or overly simplistic.  After all, that person’s problems really are the result of a shortage of money.  But trace their situation back to its roots, and you discover the loss of the job was due to the fact that nobody was buying the product or service the company they worked for was selling.  The root problem is that many, many people have stopped spending money because they have no confidence that there will be more to replace it, creating a downward spiral of anxiety and negative thinking that is causing more shrinkage, more lay-offs, and even more problems.  We’ve got to put an end to the downward spiral, and the only way to do it is through education and awareness.

And this is where the epiphany I mentioned earlier comes in.  You see, for months I’ve been getting advice from folks on how to set up an effective, profitable online business.  It was all great advice, and I trust the people that it came from to an incredible degree.  Here was the weird thing, though: little, if any, of their advice resonated with me and almost none of it inspired me to take any action.  I was getting a little frustrated with myself.  OK…a LOT frustrated. 

I had a message to share, and I needed to figure out the most effective way to get the message spread, yet everyone was telling me I needed to focus on being a big fish in a small pond, charge more for my products, and settle for massive success on a small scale.  I didn’t like the sound of that.  At all.  And yet, I knew the folks who were advising me were pros at building businesses, both on- and off-line.

And that’s when it hit me, like a load of bricks or a bolt of lightning from the sky: I wasn’t trying to create a successful business.  If I was, all of this great advice would have made perfect sense to me and I’d be doing it and making tons of money.  But that wasn’t what I was trying to accomplish.  I was trying to change the world.  And in that moment, everything clicked.

I could focus all my efforts on cultivating a niche (or even a micro-niche) and be wildly successful as a business owner, or I could focus on spreading the message and allow the business to be a by-product of the message.  I realized that I was, first and foremost, an evangelist.  In order to achieve my goal of changing the world and helping people unlock their potential and ending the global recession, I could never settle for being a big fish in a little pond, or a little fish in a big pond, for that matter.  I had to focus all my efforts on becoming a BIG fish in a really, really big ocean.

So that’s what I’m doing now.  I’m evangelizing, focusing on the message that we each have the potential to change our situation and, by so doing, to change the world around us.  And I need your help.  If you agree with what I’ve said, if this message resonates with you, if you truly believe that each and every human being on the planet has the potential for greatness locked within them, please help me spread the word.  Blog about it.  Comment on this blog.  Tell your friends, family and peers.  Point them to the tools that will help them unlock their potential and, while you’re at it, be sure to work on cultivating your own potential for greatness.

There are specific, daily actions that you can take to unleash your power.  I talk about them in my training programs.  I’ll talk about them here.  Hundreds of other teachers are talking about them as well.  But talking about them isn’t enough.  It’s up to each and every one of us to do something with the information.   Are you ready to take some action? 

Great! 

It’s good to have you along.